Theology: The God Is Dead Movement

The "God Is Dead" Movement We
must recognize that the death of God is a historical event: God has
died in our time, in our history, in our existence.

The words would seem shocking enough coming from someone like Jean-Paul
Sartre. As it happens, they were written not by a moody French
existentialist but by Thomas J. J. Altizer, 38, associate professor of
religion at Atlanta's Emory University, a Methodist school. Moreover,
Altizer is not alone in proclaiming his "atheism." Today, one
of the most hotly debated trends in U.S. Protestant seminaries is...